Upbeat Worship was recorded in my home studio during a 4 month lock down during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. As far as home studios go, this one wins the prize for the most basic. The table alone says it all - an old crib turned on it's side provides the main structure. The only extra equipment purchased to assist with recording was a pair of low-end studio headphones ($20) and an external USB sound card ($10, because my laptop only has a mono input). Despite the crude equipment, the sound of the album will blow you away.
All guitars on the album were recorded on my 20-year-old Ibanez PF5 acoustic/electric guitar using a DOD Tec4x guitar pedal which is also 20+ years old.
All vocals were recorded with a Shure SM48 (a stage mic). The studio has a low-end condenser mic, which would have provided a more sensitive vocal recording, but the background noise in the room was too much, so the Shure produced the clearer vocals. (The room is a cement room close to a major road with single pane windows.)
The bass guitar was done by playing the Ibanez acoustic/electric like a bass, dropping the pitch down an octave and running it through a digital bass guitar amp plugin.
The drum was recorded using a drum sequences (aka drum machine) that uses real drum samples, but I reprocessed the samples to my liking (namely increasing the pitch of the snare to make it more snappy). I actually re-recorded all the drums on the CD once I figured out how to reprocess the drum recordings - a several day process just to re-record the drums, but the result was much better.
The mixer/preamp is a cheaply made mixer that I use for live worship at my local church. Most of the album used a cheap USB sound card with an average of 50-60ms recording delay (5 times what is commonly accepted).
The recording was recorded using on Bandlab's Cakewalk and Melodyne. The CD was mastered using Bandlab's free mastering service.